Trick or Treat!

 Good afternoon! We are tucked up in the Tennessee Smokey Mountains for a little break just relaxing and having fun.

My post today is more inspiration using 2 sets the Spooky Nights new release from Crescent Creations. Happy Halloween and Trick or Treat.

Because these are PNG filled with white they are easy to scene build. I started with the landscape from Happy Halloween and placed 2 of the Trick or Treat characters behind it. Everything was resized and I added the sentiment before printing onto Stamping cardstock.

The scene was colored with Copic markers and the background inked with distress ink.

Black glaze pen was added to the "cat" noses and the letters of the sentiment, this makes them a darker black and gives them a shine.

So as not to take away from the scene I just added the image onto an A7 black card base.

Crescent Creations not only sell their own digital products but also sell a whole collection of other products.

Thank you for stopping by and if you love what you see please let me know in the comment section 😊

Spooky Release

 Good afternoon! I am loving the weather currently - sunshine and warm temperatures means we can have the doors and windows open and fresh air blowing through the house!

Today is new release for a company that is new to me - Sunshine and Bee Designs have some gorgeous new digital images. To celebrate we are having an Instagram Hop - If you want to join us and be in with a chance of winning the whole new release then head to my Instagram page for details.

I just had to use the Frankie Fox images: Mummy and Skeleton and I printed them out larger than usual so I could make shaped cards with them:

For both images I colored them in Copic markers and used my scan n cut to fussy cut them. I used the off set to make the images slightly larger and cut 2 of each in an orange cardstock. I scored the top of the head on one of the orange pieces, added glue to this and adhered the second orange image to this. Finally I just glued my Foxes to their respective outlines.

Mummy Frankie Fox left their hands, feet and tips of tail and ears unbandaged so their fur peeked through. 

 

Skeleton Frankie Fox has his glow in the dark outfit on and can't wait to go Trick or Treating

For both images I added Nuvo Crystal glaze to their eyes and Skeleton Frankie's nose to make them shine more.

The Instagram hop is live until October 5th and winners will be announced on the Sunshine and Bee Designs Instagram page

 

The Spooky Autumn new release has some super cute Halloween images but also has some gorgeous floral and sentiment verses. I will be back next week with more inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by, Leave me a comment if you love what you see and then go hop over to Instagram for a chance to win the full new release

Halloween Fun

 Good afternoon! I'm so over the heat of summer and can't wait for the fall temperatures. Fall is my favorite season, I love all the color changes and crisp air.

With Fall comes Halloween and Stamper's Delights Kawaii new release this month is all about the dress up with the re-release of the cutie Frankie-Stein:

He's all ready to head out trick a treating! I started by designing my background. I used a star (included in the collection!) and copied and pasted it numerous times then printed and colored it. Frankie was colored with Copic markers and I fussy cut him. When I added him to the star background the colors of the stars were too busy. I decided instead of adding a sentiment to the image to do the same as my background but printed it onto striped vellum This over lay toned down the colors of the stars making Frankie pop more!

I matted a black card base with Orange card, and added all my layers. Frankie was then added using foam squares to give dimension.

Head on over to the Stamper's Delights Store to see all of this week’s New Releases.

Why not stop by the Stamper's Delight Facebook page for regular news and inspiration from my Teamies you can also enter the progressive challenge there, no blog needed and if you sign up for the Stamper's Delight Membership you will get free images to enter the challenge with!

All the design team projects are available on the Inspiration blog - hop on over there for more inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by and if you like what you see please leave a comment to let me know!

Trick or Treating and Graveyard Fun for Halloween

 Good afternoon, hope you are enjoying your weekend, we need to get out and clear the garden now we've had most of the veggies from it!

I'm continuing with showcasing the Polkadoodles Halloween new release. Today I have designed 2 cards using 2 stamp sets - Happy Halloween Winnie Wednesday and Spooky Time:

My first is a trick or treat scene:

What I Did:

I Stamped Winnie first then masked her to stamp the spooky house. I then colored the images. I made the images into a full scene by freehand adding a path, grass and a starry sky. Finally I stamped bats and the BOO sentiment.

My A7 card base was matted with orange cardstock which I stamped with the bats. I then added a strip of black cardstock and a piece of design paper.

My image was matted with black cardstock and added to the base.

What I Used:

Stamps Polkadoodles - Happy Halloween Winnie Wednesday Clear Stamps

             Polkadoodles - Spooky Time Clear Stamps

Stamping Card: X-Press It

Alcohol Markers: Copic

White Pen for 'stars' - Uniball Signo Broad

Black and Orange Cardstock: Core'Dinations Premium

Design Paper: Polkadoodles - Bone Shakin Halloween 6x6 paper pack 

Glue: ZipDry

My second card is Winnie Wednesday in a grave yard:

What I Did:

This was a simple card, I ink blended my background using Distress Oxide inks. Once dry I then stamped the images from Spooky Time to create my scene. Winnie Wednesday was stamped and then fussy cut her. She does have pumpkins on the original stamp but I decided to use her without these. I then colored her with alcohol markers. I matte an A2 card base with orange cardstock then added my background. finally I adhered Winnie to the corner of the card. 

What I Used: 

Stamps Polkadoodles - Happy Halloween Winnie Wednesday Clear Stamps

             Polkadoodles - Spooky Time Clear Stamps

Stamping Card: X-Press It

Alcohol Markers: Copic

Blending card - Bristol Smooth

Inks: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide

Black and Orange Cardstock: Core'Dinations Premium Heavyweight

Looking for more inspiration? Then check out my teamies designs over on the Facebook page, you can also post your own Polkadoodles' designs on the Craft Stamp and Colour with Polkadoodles Facebook group

Thanks for stopping by.

Bone Shakin' Halloween

 Good afternoon! I have all the house doors open letting the cooler air in to the house, It's so much better than the air con! The dogs love it too. 

Halloween isn't that fair away and Polkadoodles have released a great set of clear stamps using their cute Winnie Wednesday! I have designed a collection of cards for this new release and over the next few days I will be showcasing them for you.

My first card is using Boneshakin Halloween Winnie Wednesday, there are 2 main images in this set with lots of  embellishment stamps you can use with them. My card is using Winnie sitting on a huge pumpkin:

What I Did: 

I started by stamping the main image onto stamping card, I then masked the edge of this and stamped the cat. This gives the impression the cat is behind the pumpkins. The sentiment was then stamped across the top. I then colored the image with alcohol markers.

I matted a black A2 card base with purple card stock and design paper from the Boneshakin Halloween Paper Pack. 

My Image was trimmed to fit may card and matted with black and purple cardstock before adhering to the card base with foam tape. 

What I Used:

Stamps: Polkadoodles - Boneshakin Halloween Winnie Wednesday Clear stamp Set

Stamping Card: X-Press It

Alcohol Markers: Copic

Design Paper: Polkadoodles - Boneshakin Halloween 6x6 Paper Pack 

Card Base and black card Mat: Core'dinations premium heavy weight cardstock

Purple Card: Tonic

Looking for more inspiration? Then check out my teamies designs over on the Facebook page, you can also post your own Polkadoodles' designs on the Craft Stamp and Colour with Polkadoodles Facebook group

Thanks for stopping by.

Cats and Pumpkins

Good afternoon, the temperatures fell this afternoon, it was so nice to have the doors open and air blowing through the house. Fall is finally arriving I just hope that we have seen the end of the high temps.

Along with Fall comes Halloween and today's card is such a cute Halloween scene:

Halloween Cats is a digi stamp from Lili Of The Valley. This was my second attempt at coloring the image. My cats on the first one were a touch too dark and you couldn't quite make out their features. 

I colored the image with Copic markers and Prismacolor pencils. I followed Mindy Baxter's tutorial for creating a Halloween background which I think turned out well and really shows off the characters. 

The image is actually framed so I colored this in black rather than adding a mat layer to it.

 I made a 5 x 7 inch card base and matted this with orange and black card. The design paper is a free digital paper which I felt coordinated well. I stamped my Trick or Treat Sentiment on orange card and matted this with black. After arranging my image and sentiment I placed black pearls to balance out the design.

Lili of The Valley used to be my favorite stamp company when I lived in the UK as we lived in the same town as their store I was a frequent customer. I hadn't bought many stamps from them since moving to USA but now they do digital stamps and I don't have to wait for them to be shipped that has changed 😁

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